An Early Access version of RS MINERVE 2.0 is now available for members of the Hydro10 Association, public release is scheduled in Fall 2015.

This version facilitates the management and connection of RS MINERVE to other systems and provides new functionalities and models for flood forecasting as well as hydraulics and hydropower engineering.

What’s New

Version 2.0.0 :

Graphic interface improved

New modular and extensible software architecture based on PRISM 5.0 and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

Channel routing models updated

Turbine and hydropower models improved

Integration of background images

In the GIS module: functions to create full hydrological models from shapefiles

Improved settings, with custom or predefined systems of units (SI International System, US Customary)

Command lines tasks enables to invoke Visual Basic (VB) scripts from a command prompt. This opens the door to a wide scope applications, including real-time simulations.

The objective of this course is to provide foundational skills for hydrological-hydraulic modelling and to understand related problems.

First, the basics of hydrological systems will be presented for the interpretation of modelling results. Then, the RS MINERVE software is introduced to participants on the basis of a practical case study. Participants learn to approach modelling problems as a whole, from the definition of the hydrological basin to the calculation and analysis of simulation results.

The course ‘Modeling and analysis of water resources systems with AQUATOOL and RS MINERVE’ took place on October 6th and 8th 2014 in the Dirección de Hidráulica y Recursos Hídricos (Hydraulics and Water Resources Direction) in Paraná City, Argentina. The course combined theoretical and practical modules designed to enable participants to model and understand hydrological basins with the help of AQUATOOL and RS MINERVE, two software tools supported by the Hydro10 Association. We congratulate the 12 participants from the Dirección de Hidráulica y Recursos Hídricos from Paraná City who successfully took part in this interesting course.

The course was taught by Néstor Lerma, from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) and member of the Hydro10 Association, and was organized by the Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos, the UPV, the Hydro10 Association and the CREALP research center.

A PhD student of the University of Bristol is currently working on the improvements of rainfall estimations by merging different source of rainfall measurements, such as weather radars and rain gauges. He is also studying the applications of these improved rainfall estimations in hydrological and flood management studies.

Hydro10 is currently collaborating to provide a technical support to build the hydrological HBV model in RS MINERVE, to create meteorological databases and to use them for hydrological simulations.

RS MINERVE provides an effective framework for these hydro-meteorological studies and allows the users to deeply analyze different hydrological models based on different sets of meteorological data.

A professional technician of the Unit of Glaciology and Water Resources of the National Water Authority of Peru is currently preparing his PhD research thesis in the “Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM)” in Lima, Peru, on hydro-glaciological modeling in the tropical glacier of Yanamarey, in the Cordillera Blanca.

Hydro10 provides a technical support to build hydro-glaciological models using the RS MINERVE software and its hydrological models GSM (glacial watersheds) and SOCONT (non-glacial watersheds).

The objective of the thesis is to provide future hydrological scenarios based on climate change and to analyze the possible consequences.

Hydro10 Association signed a convention for the developpement of the RS MINERVE tool. It will allow to develop special objects and new improvements thanks to volunteer people working in the Association.